or letters of the Alphabet, & were not written on with inke, least they should be obliterated by the subsequent operations, but had their shapes cut out in a strong parchement, that was made use of insteed of paper; the vessells being all taken out were laid to soake in good wine vinegar, made in to a pretty strong brine with sea salt, to free them from blood & juices, & to make them white. Then being taken out they were for 3 days put into a strong infusion <made of Aloes myrr and olibanum (or Frankincese)>replacing 'of' in rich malago sack, or the like strong <Menstruum>in underline in Boyle hand these preparatery infusions being ended, the Heap of vessells was taken out for to draine, & then were cast into a larger quantity of fresh infusion of the same kind with the former, & there they were kept 30 dayes. †All these m deleted This infusion, as well as the foregoing, being made all this while without Heat) at the end of which thealtered from 'they' now prepar'd vessells were taken out, and put into a much wider vessell, where <one>replacing 'there' might by gently tumbling them up and down, disintangle them by degrees; and then being taken out, by the [direction]unclear of the <above mention'd> parchment letters tied to the several vessells, they were †placed deleted transferr'd to a table made of 2 or 3 smooth boards, either of Cypress or of firr, & †wh deleted if any of them chanc'd to be entangled they were made more easy to be extricated by being plentifully moisten'd with spunges dipt in the vinous infusion allready described. The vessells being plac'd in their due situation, were pasted on one by one, the greater vessells by fish-glew dissolved in an infusion ofaltered from 'wi' Aloes and Myrr